thp: keep huge zero page pinned until tlb flush
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 28 Apr 2016 23:18:27 +0000 (16:18 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 29 Apr 2016 02:34:04 +0000 (19:34 -0700)
commitaa88b68c3b1dce8bc3fd54c8a7372a777ff265cd
tree98ad92a044b6a2f39a8fa4c1c24df001108bd1a8
parent66ee95d16a7f1b7b4f1dd74a2d81c6e19dc29a14
thp: keep huge zero page pinned until tlb flush

Andrea has found[1] a race condition on MMU-gather based TLB flush vs
split_huge_page() or shrinker which frees huge zero under us (patch 1/2
and 2/2 respectively).

With new THP refcounting, we don't need patch 1/2: mmu_gather keeps the
page pinned until flush is complete and the pin prevents the page from
being split under us.

We still need patch 2/2.  This is simplified version of Andrea's patch.
We don't need fancy encoding.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447938052-22165-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/huge_mm.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/swap.c